AFAIK nothing, just the nvidia driver, and nvidia-settings (and nvidia-prime is it's an optimus setup) .. I haven't gone through the new ubiquity code though.

If this is coming from EB, I think he's kinda getting confused as to what "optimus" and "prime" mean .. I get the feeling he thinks they're different hardware.

"Optimus" is the hardware configuration (just what nvidia call the nvidia/intel mixed hardware) .. nvidia-prime is just the software that allows swapping .. they're not separate things.(people just tend to use the terms interchangeably, but they're both talking about the same hardware/software setup)

I also think he may be expecting the ability to 'hot' swap between them (ie. without logging off/on) as can now be done with a new tool in Arch/Manjaro .. that's not the case yet in Ubuntu as nobody has packaged that new tool yet.

As it mentions third party software and drivers (Install third party drivers for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware and additional media formats) .. I'm assuming it's the same as the old "install third party software" just with the nvidia drivers thrown in.

Now me, I usually add ubuntu-restricted-extras & lubuntu-restricted-extras as a matter of course, but these days they seem to be pulling in less and less every release (specially if you've already chosen the "install third party software" during installation).

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